Surfing The Web So You Don't Have To
A lot of people are linking to this guy’s entirely CSS maze, but I think his entire CSS Playground is very impressive. I especially like his method for hiding e-mail addresses, his CSS Art Gallery, as well as his buttons and menus area.
CSS is damn powerful, and I really wish I knew even half what this guy knows. I’m mostly posting this here so that I have it for reference to plagiarize look at for future designs.
Somebody had too much time on their hands, but I can’t say that I’m arguing with it: Here’s an archive of every single Calvin And Hobbes comic. The complete print archive can’t come soon enough.
I also need a Mac Mini, so I can manage my Mini with my Newton. How’s that for a retro hack?
Because this lady was an organ donor, and because she was young, fit and healthy when she died, her organs could potentially save 20 lives.
Since I’ve been told that this site has been such a huge productivity killer for workers around the world, here’s another time waster for you: Tower Blaster. Played this during my lunch break, and made it to level 5, but can’t make it past that.
For all those journalism history geeks like me, you’ll love digging through this.
Now available to the public for the first time are Woodward and Bernstein’s notes from source interviews, drafts of newspaper stories and books, memos, letters, tape recordings, research materials, and other Watergate papers. These materials document Woodward and Bernstein’s four-year partnership telling the story of Watergate in Pulitzer Prize winning articles for The Washington Post, in two best-selling books, All The President’s Men and The Final Days, and in the multiple academy award-winning movie of All the President’s Men.
Thanks Barney for the link.
Don’t get started on these things while at work, otherwise you’ll kill your entire day and get all pissed off. In both of these games, the idea is the guess the URL of the next page in the series.
Exhibit A is a puzzle where the answer is written in a clear form, it’s just disguised in some way. The first little bit is fairly easy, but it gets pretty tough pretty fast.
Exhibit B should only be tackled if you have a week to kill — at the bare minimum. Over 1.5 million have tried it, only 173 people have completed it. It involves digging through hex code, images, opening up sound files, as well as a pile of other pain in the butt stuff, sometimes to get passwords to move onto the correct page. It has 81 levels, and a huge forum if you’re having trouble with them. Just don’t ask for hints. I’ve gotten through eight of the levels, and I was pretty proud of myself, but even that took a long time.
I’m just not going to get started on any of these things, otherwise I’ll be at it for quite a while.
Sometimes when I’m work on a design or tweak to a document here at the office, I like to use typographical dingbats because typography is easier to work with in most programs, and it always prints sharp (one of the perks of vector-based graphics). Upon my searching today, I came across this huge archive. I’m mostly posting it here so I have a permanent bookmark of it, but it might come in handy to somebody.
You might notice something different about the “Credits” area of this site, and you may have noticed a subtle hint before: Barney Lerten, formally ace reporter at Bend.com, has moved on over to Z21 as the Assistant News Director. You can read the full story and press release over at Barney’s site.
Pretty much everything that Barney touches is vastly improved (heck, there are far fewer stupid errors on this site because of him), and while he’s still got a lot to learn over there, I’m sure things will only get better (they need to keep that weekend weather guy — he’s a riot). I will miss him scooping the city on Bend.com, however. Hopefully Z21 will get something going online so I can link to the scoops he’ll undoubtedly get online there at some point.
You can view them here. And be sure to read why GoDaddy’s ad never ran in the second half, like it was supposed to, on the CEO’s blog. Be sure to watch the full two-minute version of the ad here. GoDaddy already had trouble getting their ad to air, as previous versions were rejected. I think it was a good ad, I just have no idea how much it’s going to help GoDaddy’s business (I personal use GoDaddy’s Domain and SSL certificate services, and they work dandy).